{"id":21506,"date":"2013-07-30T00:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/erik-zabel-resigns-after-doping-admission\/"},"modified":"2013-07-30T00:29:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:29:21","slug":"erik-zabel-resigns-after-doping-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/erik-zabel-resigns-after-doping-admission\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Zabel resigns after doping admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Erik_Zabel_am_Prolog_vum_TdF_2006_hh.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[11401]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Tour de France, Prolog, Erik Zabel.\" alt=\"Tour de France, Prolog, Erik Zabel.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/546c1_300px-Erik_Zabel_am_Prolog_vum_TdF_2006_hh.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tour de France, Prolog, Erik Zabel. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p>Former Tour de France green jersey wearer Erik Zabel resigned from his position with the Professional Cycling Council on Monday following his doping admissions, the International Cycling Union said.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old gave an interview published on the Sueddeutsche Zeitung website Sunday in which he admitted to using EPO between 1996 and 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The six-time Tour green jersey winner\u2019s confession came a few days after a French government commission released the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/epo-report-is-no-shock-for-armstrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">names of a number of cyclists <\/a>whose retroactively tested samples from 1998 and 1999 had come up positive in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1998 and 1999 there was no test for EPO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe International Cycling Union has announced that the former sprint cyclist Erik Zabel has resigned from the Professional Cycling Council,\u201d said a UCI statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe contacted the UCI President earlier today (Monday) to offer his resignation and to further express his \u2018deep regret for having lied for so long about taking performance enhancing substances\u2019. Erik Zabel said that <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/doping-made-winning-possible-says-armstrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">cycling is now in a cleaner era<\/a>, however he is no longer the right person to be a part of the Professional Cycling Council.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20130729-zabel-resigns-post-following-doping-admission\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fc5ee_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour de France, Prolog, Erik Zabel. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Former Tour de France green jersey wearer Erik Zabel resigned from his position with the Professional Cycling Council on Monday following his doping admissions, the International Cycling Union said. The 43-year-old gave an interview published on the Sueddeutsche Zeitung website Sunday in which he admitted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}